ScottD's Musings

My Uber-Test-Driven Development ("TDD") Links Listing

I discovered TDD about 3 years ago, and haven't stopped using it since.  Wanting to give back to the community, I wanted to share any/all links that I have for TDD/VS 2005/etc...  I will continue to modify this list, so please let me know your feedback, questions, additions, etc...

Known issues

1 - VS 2005 & TDD Articles need more links.  I hope to have some more ASAP.

2 - I might pull Development Methodologies into it's own category.  Will let everyone know if I do so.

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   Modification History

   10/19/2004   Added TDD Blog link to Michael's (Unit Test Code as sacred as Production Code) Post

   10/20/2004   Added Drag & Drop Unit Test for MbUnit

   11/30/2004   Replaced NunitAddin for TestDriven.net

   12/06/2004   Added http://www.developertesting.com/ and Blog article on Google/TDD/xP

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Enjoy & Cheers,

Scooter

Methodology / Approach

• TDD evolved from eXtreme Programming Methodology - http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/whatisxp.htm#test
• Listing of xUnit Test Runners - www.xprogramming.com/software.htm
• TestDriven.com – www.testdriven.com
• http://www.parlezuml.com/ (Good UML & TDD reference)
• (new) http://www.developertesting.com/

TDD Blog Roll

• James Newkirk (Father of NUnit, now MS Employee!) – http://weblogs.asp.net/jamesnewkirk/
• Roy Osherove – Iserializable’s TDD Category - http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/category/3037.aspx
• Darrell Norton’s TDD Category - http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/category/1029.aspx
• Visual Studio 2005 Team System Blogroll - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/blogs.aspx
• (New) Jonathan Cogley's TDD Category - http://weblogs.asp.net/jcogley/category/3607.aspx?Show=All
• (new) Good Post - Consider Unit Test Code as sacred as production code - http://blogs.msdn.com/micahel/archive/2004/10/13/241775.aspx

Software – Commercial Test Runners

• HarnessIT - http://www.unittesting.com
• XUnity - http://X-unity.miik.com.ua
• Unite.NET - http://www.ascentiv.ch (Unit & Integration Testing)
• .TEST - http://www.parasoft.com/jsp/products/home.jsp?product=TestNet&itemId=158
• Visual Studio 2005 & Team System (Team Developer & Team Test Editions) - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/

Software – Open-Source Test Runners

• Nunit – www.nunit.org
• csUnit – www.csUnit.org
• mbunit - http://mbunit.tigris.org/
• RUnit - http://www.ruxp.net/runit.asp (Very cool - runs NUnit tests in ASP.NET… run from any browser, remotely, etc…)

Software – Open-Source Test Runner Complements

• NUnit MSI (Nunit Plugin for MSI Installer) – VERY COOL! http://weblogs.asp.net/jsgreenwood/archive/2004/08/18/216229.aspx
• NUnitASP - http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net/   (Good Blog Tips & Tricks, here)
• NunitForms - http://nunitforms.sourceforge.net/  (WinForms unit testing with Recorder app)
• Mailframe’s TestRunner for VS.NET 2003 - http://www.mailframe.net/Products/TestRunner.htm (repalces use of NUnitGui, integrated into VS.NET 2003)
• VSNUnit for VS.NET (Link appears to be dead at this time)
• NUnitAddin - http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin
• (new) TestDriven.net (Replaces NUnitAddin) -  http://www.testdriven.net
• (new) NunitForms - http://sourceforge.net/projects/nunitforms/ (Windows Forms testing with NUnit)
• (new) MBUnit - Drag & Drop Unit Tests!  VERY COOL (w/ Flash Demonstration) - http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/09/16/963.aspx

Software – Open-Source Mock Objects

• EasyMock.NET - http://sourceforge.net/projects/easymocknet/
• MockObjects - http://www.mockobjects.com/FrontPage.html (Good overall reference)
• DotNetMock - http://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetmock/
• POCMock - http://en.www.prettyobjects.com/POCMock.aspx
• NMock - http://nmock.truemesh.com/

Software - Unit Testing & Tools for Xml Web Services

• AmberPoint Express - http://www.amberpoint.com/solutions/express.shtml
• Proxy Trace - http://www.pocketsoap.com/tcptrace/pt.aspx
• Soap Scope - http://www.mindreef.com/products/overview.html
• WSE 2.0 Tracing Utility - http://mtaulty.com/blog/archive/2004/05/25/433.aspx

Books (Linked to the greatness that is www.bookpool.com )

• Test-Driven Development in Microsoft.NET (James Newkirk) - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcf9zii/sm/0735619484  (Code @ GDN Workspace)
• Test-Driven Development: By Example (Kent Beck) - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcf9zii/sm/0321146530
• Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide (Dave Astels) - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcf9zii/sm/0131016490
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# & NUnit (Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas) - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcfhjy1/ss?qs=0-9745140-2-0&x=26&y=5
• (new) Interesting Read Google does TDD & xP - http://geekswithblogs.net/srkprasad/archive/2004/12/03/16712.aspx

Articles

• Microsoft God Eric Gunnerson’s article on TDD & Test-First Development - http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp03202003.asp
• Scott Ambler’s Article on TDD - http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html
• TDD Overview  - http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/tdd_in_dotnet.asp
• Review of James Newkirk’s TechEd Europe BOF Session - http://benjaminm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=fdd292d0-a324-4178-b46e-f02a114bde74
• Organizing Your Automated Tests (9-part series) - http://tap.testautomationpatterns.com:8080/TestAutomationOverview.html
• (more to come)

Software - Code Coverage (How much code actually executed?)

• NCover - http://ncover.sourceforge.net/
• CoverageEye.NET - http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=881A36C6-6F45-4485-A94E-060130687151

Refactoring:

Sites:

• Martin Fowler’s Refactoring Portal - http://www.refactoring.com/

Software:

• C# ReFactory - http://www.xtreme-simplicity.net/
• C#/Refactoring Tutorial - http://www.parlezuml.com/tutorials/dotnet_refactoring/intro.htm
• (New) JetBrains Resharper (VS.NET AddIn) - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/

Books:

• Refactoring to Patterns (Joshua Kerievsky) - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcf7fz1/sm/0321213351
• Refactoring: Improving the design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler) AWESOME BOOK - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcf7fz1/sm/0201485672
• Refactoring Workbook (William C Wake)- http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcf7fz1/sm/0321109295
• Anti-Patterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis (William Brown, et. al.) - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcf7fz1/sm/0471197130

Development Methodologies Links

MSF - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/enterprise/msf/

FDD

• http://www.featuredrivendevelopment.com/
• http://www.nebulon.com/fdd/
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Agile - http://www.agilemanifesto.org/

xP –

• http://www.xpexchange.net/en/index.html
• http://www.xprogramming.com

SCRUM

• Control Chaos – (Home of Scrum)- http://www.controlchaos.com/
• Book: Agile Project Management with Scrum (Ken Schwaber ) - http://www.bookpool.com/.x/qb9tcfatk4/sm/073561993X
• Scrum Process - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ScrumProcess
• Blog Post - http://bolourian.com/archive/2004/03/25/161.aspx
• Get Ready For Scrum (excerpt from Agile Software Development with Scrum book) - http://www.controlchaos.com/excerpt.pdf
• Introducing an Agile Process to an Organization - http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/articles/IntroducingAnAgileProcess.pdf

Visual Studio 2005 Team System Links

• VS 2005 Home Page – http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/
• VS 2005 Team System Home Page - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/
• Official Team System 'AskBurton' Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/
• *** Offical Team System Blogroll - http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/blogs.aspx
• 'VS 2005 Beta 1 Refresh' & VPC 2004 Installation Issue - http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/archive/2004/09/01/224471.aspx
• Team System Q&A with Jason Anderson (Good Read) - http://blogs.msdn.com/jason_anderson/archive/2004/09/16/230361.aspx
• Chris Menegay – South Central MSDN RD, Fellow DGC member, and Team System afficionado (i.e Uber-stud) - http://weblogs.asp.net/cmenegay